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I'm pretty sure people have been falling off things for a quite a while.

This comment brings me so much joy, it might be the most "hackernews" thing I've ever read. I don't disagree though. Everything is physics, and physics is applied math

I think that is a more clear framing of what the OP was saying, and if they had written it that way I probably wouldn't have bothered replying. It just had a very fatalistic tone I…

My intention was to imply that normal human behavior involves doing things that aren't economically beneficial. Why play piano at home when you could use that energy to work? Why g…

I didn't mean to imply that you hadn't cared, or felt loss. That would definitely be presumptuous. I was only commenting on the "easily produced" comment. I don't think I've heard …

This comment defines value as what people pay for things, then comes to the conclusion that they way to value people must be based on what people will pay for them. That's not insi…

You and the parent both made good points. In Germany a swastika might be seen as more of a direct threat of specific action than other places. That makes it more sensible to classi…

> No it doesn't, this is just an empty appeal to emotional manipulation. I intended for that to be a direct reference to the concept of "tyranny of the majority". > You see, since …

The power given to the masses vs the ruling class is always in flux. The light may go out, but it won't be forever. I'm also hopeful that the requirement for a well educated workfo…

> I'm not. You come to my house, you follow my rules, you come to our country you follow our values, simple I wish it was this simple, so badly, but that strategy has been tried ma…

No, all those things harm other people. The ban on swastikas would be considered authoritarian because it's only purpose is to limit expression. Considering Germany's recent histor…

You're throwing a bunch of straw man arguments out, which makes it a lot of work to actually respond to this whole post. Rights are always on a spectrum with a large amount of grey…

Controlling how people dress sounds pretty authoritarian to me. The fact that it's currently not acceptable to enter a bank with a covered face would indicate a law banning it in a…

While I 100% agree that there are wage issues, the question with housing is why it's growing faster than general inflation. House prices seem to be increasing fastest in places wit…

This opinion sets up corporate consolidation as the cause of all issue in the US. I don't think it makes sense for that to be the null hypothesis that needs to be disproven. For th…

> Steel factories cannot shutdown temporarily due to high electricity prices. They need a steady source of electricity. This isn't true, there are currently facilities doing exactl…

That's just the theme the author is running. If you use a use a standard theme, you'll get a higher contrast text color. From their wiki: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/04c2219…

> Claiming that not getting sunlight is the same as smoking is pure garbage. So you're throwing out a whole study because it didn't cover a specific confounding variable you though…

The two sides of this conversation seem to be using different definitions of the word "state". I won't argue which is more appropriate in this context, but I think that's where the…

> and that it was in our top 10 domestic exports Note that a main point of the article is that it is not in the US' top 10 exports

The chart in that link seems to indicate it was 0.6%, while total R&D funding was 3.4%

This is why you shouldn't get into arguments about performance on the internet without highly specified execution environments. I'm going to take my own advice and go back to work …

Yeah, if you treat it as javascript vs python they're likely correct (I'm not that familiar with js). The article and original comment were about function vs imperative though, so …

You are describing how to execute the procedure, while the gp is describing what the result should be. Both are valuable, but they're very different. My personal take is that "how …